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Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; in every person who comes near you, look for what is good and strong; honor that; rejoice in it; and as you can, try to imitate it; and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.
Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; in every person who comes near you, look for what is good and strong; honor that; rejoice in it; and as you can, try to imitate it; and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.
Approximate author period: c. 1859 AD · industrial
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- John Ruskin
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- Approximate author period: c. 1859 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1819 to 1900; Wikidata Q179126, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q179126 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 21; printed byline: Ruskin; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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